INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES AND POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC by A. O. Blokhina

“…In particular, it examines such peculiarities of the Kyrgyz society as ethnocultural dividedness and neopatrimonial political and cultural orientations. The author concludes that alterations made to the institutional framework of relationship between the president, the head of parliament, and the parliament, and to the growth of responsibility and discipline of deputies may have a positive effect on maintaining of political stability especially given the level of institutionalization of the party system rises.…”
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Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana... by Claire Laguian

“…Not many publications exist about the history of colonization and slavery in the Canary Islands, and then a significant epistemic and memorial void remains in the contemporary Canarian imagination due to the total destruction of the native cultures and languages after the crimes of colonization and acculturation. …”
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Da margem à multidão, a centralidade e o êxodo dos pobres by Alemar S. A. Rena

“…Con este artículo, buscamos problematizar la percepción de la llamada “escritura periférica” como un diseño cultural y lingüístico que hace frente a un “centro” o “circuito hegemónico” en el cual la periferia debería, una vez superado los antagonismos, ser “incluída”. …”
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Carp Edema Virus Disease (CEVD) / Koi Sleepy Disease (KSD) by Shohreh Hesami, Pedro Viadanna, Natalie K. Steckler, Staci Spears, Patrick M. Thompson, Karen L. Kelley, Roy P. E. Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Johnny Shelley, Joseph M. Groff, Andy Goodwin, Olga L. M. Haenen, Thomas B. Waltzek

“… Carp edema virus disease is killing wild and cultured varieties of carp and worrying koi enthusiasts and carp aquaculturists in the United States and around the world. …”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…Since this historical narrative assigns a specific place to the different ethnic and religious minorities within the nation, it constitutes a cultural resource that may be mobilized to vindicate a group’s rights or to deny them to its opponents.…”
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Religious Responses to Agricultural Crises: Exploring the Diverse Patterns in Garut, Indonesia by Asep Shodiqin

“…This research provides practical insights for policymakers and community leaders, empowering them to develop culturally sensitive and effective strategies for managing agricultural challenges.…”
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Dynamic Production of Soluble Extracellular Polysaccharides by Streptococcus mutans by Eva-Maria Decker, Ilka Dietrich, Christian Klein, Christiane von Ohle

“…The aim of this study was the evaluation of a novel glucan-specific Lectin assay for monitoring water-soluble EPS produced by S. mutans during several growth periods in different media. S. mutans cultures were grown for 24 h, 48 h, and 144 h in medium deficient of sucrose (A) and medium supplemented with 5% sucrose (B). …”
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The Establishment of Village Regulations in the Context of Village Democratization by Yulia Neta, Budiyono Budiyono, Ade Arif Firmansyah, Malicia Evendia

“…The enactment of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages introduces a distinct dimension to the democratization process within villages, emphasizing recognition and subsidiarity that portrays villages not merely as geographic entities but as integral parts of their socio-cultural communities. Currently, the formulation of village regulations as a manifestation of village autonomy remains a stagnant process. …”
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L. N. TOLSTOY IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL SENSE OF HUMAN by V. E. Gromov

“…The author proceeded from the necessity of a dialectical understanding of the concepts of nonviolence, mercy, justice and a cultural-historical focus on the possibilities of society in realizing the spirituality principles. …”
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Determinantes de progresos educativos en Yaroslavl, Rusia by Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García

“…Los resultados indican que las variables explicativas más comunes, los recursos familiares (incluyendo capital cultural, social y nivel socioeconómico), tienen un pequeño pero estadísticamente significativo efecto positivo en los logros educativos y las trayectorias de los estudiantes.…”
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Insect and Mite Integrated Pest Management in Florida Cotton by Joseph E. Funderburk, Nicole Casuso, Norman C. Leppla, Michael Donahoe

“…It serves as a reference for cultural, mechanical, biological, and chemical control of arthropods. …”
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Fractional-Order PI Control of First Order Plants with Guaranteed Time Specifications by F. J. Castillo-Garcia, A. San Millan-Rodriguez, V. Feliu-Batlle, L. Sanchez-Rodriguez

“…Cardiospheres (CSs) are self-assembling multicellular clusters from the cellular outgrowth from cardiac explants cultured in nonadhesive substrates. They contain a core of primitive, proliferating cells, and an outer layer of mesenchymal/stromal cells and differentiating cells that express cardiomyocyte proteins and connexin 43. …”
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Societal changes in Ancient Greece impacted terrestrial and marine environments by Andreas Koutsodendris, Joseph Maran, Ulrich Kotthoff, Jörg Lippold, Maria Knipping, Oliver Friedrich, Axel Gerdes, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, André Bahr, Hartmut Schulz, Dimitris Sakellariou, Jörg Pross

“…Abstract The Aegean hosts some of the earliest cultural centers in European antiquity. To reconstruct the evolution of early anthropogenic impact in this region, we have examined lead (Pb) contents and vegetation dynamics on well-dated environmental archives extending to the early Holocene. …”
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Chronic Corynebacterium striatum Septic Arthritis in a Patient Referred for Total Knee Arthroplasty by Katharine Hollnagel, Jacob Willen, Michael Ellis, Yalda Soleimanifard, Robert Booth, Sumon Nandi

“…Joint aspiration white blood cell count was 30,548/mm3, but multiple cultures were positive for C. striatum. The infection was successfully treated with open irrigation and debridement, complete synovectomy, and six weeks of intravenous daptomycin. …”
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L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica by Pierangelo Gentile

“…Lombroso, who considered himself ignorant in matters of music, thus introduces new, previously neglected elements by “technicians” (according to Lombroso’s expression), which allow for a new interpretation of a crucial part of nineteenth-century Italian cultural scenery.…”
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L’innovation au pluriel des cré-acteurs alpins by Andréa Finger-Stich

“…Our point of view is that for contributing to the sustainable development of the Alps, innovations need to change the ecological, political, social and cultural relationships engaging the actors in these territories. …”
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Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetoric of Islamophobia by Stefan L. Brandt

“…The post-9/11 era is marked by an unusual rise of Islamophobic rhetoric that permeates the U.S. cultural imaginary and connects a wide range of medial discourses from literature and cinema to television and the World Wide Web. …”
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Translation as growth: Xiangsheng’s growing trajectory in China and abroad by Ye Tian, Guanpeng Wang

“…Our exploration reveals that translation enables the intermingling of political tension, performers’ self-awareness, audiences’ social and cultural background, and the broader historical background of the form itself as it grows and evolves in different times and locations. …”
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La contribución del pintor Antonio Agudo al conjunto del Viacrucis de la Basílica del Gran Poder de Sevilla by Miguel Bastante Recuerda

“…Desde esta manera de ver o, mejor dicho, desde esa visión artística, totalmente inmersa en un panorama cultural y social de una Sevilla Barroca, Agudo hace del arte su vehículo de expresión, y le permite plasmar una visión muy personal del mundo. …”
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Relational Processes in Mandalika’s Tourism Texts: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis by Elisa Debora Silalahi, Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna, Ekaning Krisnawati

“…Moreover, Mandalika also contains natural and cultural resources that can be explored. Therefore, it is categorized as one of the 5 Super Priority Destinations and is still being developed to attract domestic and international visitors. …”
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